The Turkish Gambit Quotes

“The titular counselor buttoned up his collar and replied seriously: “If you live in a state, you should either ch-cherish it or leave it—anything else is either parasitism or mere lackeys’ gossip.”
― Boris Akunin, The Turkish Gambit

“The double-headed eagle that serves the Russian Empire as its crest illustrates quite magnificently the entire system of government of that country, where any matter of even the slightest importance is not entrusted to a single authority but at least two,”
― Boris Akunin, The Turkish Gambit

“All in all, Varya felt much the same as she had in the restaurant of the Hotel Royale when the men had caught the scent of blood and run wild, entirely forgetting that she even existed - yet another proof that by his very nature man was closer to the animal world than woman, that the feral principle was more pronounced in man, and therefore the true variety of Homo Sapiens was indeed woman, the more advanced, subtle and complex being.”
― Boris Akunin, The Turkish Gambit

“Have you ever heard of the law of large numbers? If you carry on betting large sums day after day, then sooner or later you are bound to win everything back.” As far”
― Boris Akunin, The Turkish Gambit

“The democratic principle infringes the rights of those who are more intelligent, more talented, and harder working; it places them in a position of dependence on the foolish will of the stupid, talentless, and lazy, because society always contains more of the latter.”
― Boris Akunin, The Turkish Gambit